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ORDINANCE NO. B-2263
AN ORDINANCE providing altnimum requirements for the protection of life,
limb, health, property, safety and welfare of the general
public and the owners and occupants of residential buildings
providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees
therefore; adopting the Housing Code of the City of Yakima,
providing for penalties for the violation thereof and repeal-
ing all ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict here-
with.
WHEREAS, the 1957 Session of the Washington State Legislature
provided for the adoption by municipalities within the State, of compre-
hensive plans for urban renewal and for other matters pertaining to the
same, the same being R.C.W., Chapter 35.81, and
WHEREAS, any numicipality seeking federal aid in any urban
renewal program must, as a prerequisite, have adopted a housing code, and
WHEREAS, the Housing Code of the City of Yakima Prepared,
adopted and recommended by the Planning Commission of the City of Yakima
conforms with the requirements established for such a housing code, now,
therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. The Housing Code of the City of Yakima, providing
minimum standards for all buildings or portions thereof, used or designed
or intended to be used for human havitation for the protection of life,
limb, health, property, safety and welfare of the general public and the
owners and occupants; prepared, adopted and recommended by the Planning
Commission of the City of Yakima, a copy of which is hereto attached and
by this reference made a part hereof be and the same hereby is adopted as
the provisions and regulations of the City of Yakima, and the several Sec-
tions or Numbers therein 5 forth shall constitute the numbers and may
he referred to as the numbers of this Ordinance.
Section 2. The clerk of the City of Yakima is hereby re-
quired, authorized and directed to file with the County Auditor of Yakima
County a copy of this ordinance duly certified as a true copy.
Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
with this ordinance are hereby repealed, provided, however, that this
ordinance shall not affect any action or proceeding had or commended in
any civil or criminal cause before this ordinance and its respective pro-
visions shall take effect and any such acts and all such actions or pro-
ceedings thereunder may be prosecuted and continued with the same effect
and under the same provisions of law in effect at the time such act wws
done or action or proceedings had or commenced, and any offense in any
provisions of the ordinances of this City which are repealed by this
ordinance, and the commissions whereof have been completed before the
effective date of this act shall be punishable as provided by the ordin-
ance in effect at the time of the completion of such acts Ifahout regard
for the fact that such provisions of ordinance have been repealed hereby.
Section 4. This ordinance shall be and is hereby declared
to be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from and after its final
passage, approval and publication, as provided by law and the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this llth
day of March, 1959.
ATTEST: J.A. SMITH ( S E A L ) JOE K. ALDERSON
CITY CLERK MAYOR
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and correct copy
of Ordinance No. B-2263 entitled "AN ORDINANCE providing minimum require-
ments for the protection of life, limb, health, property, sde@ty and wel-
fare of the general public and the owners and occupants of residential
buildings providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees
therefore; adopting the HoUsing Code of the City of Yakima, providing for
penalties for the violation thereof and repealing all ordinances or parts
of Ordinances in conflict herewittl." as passed on the llth day of March,
1959, and that the same has been published as required by law.,/
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